Terry said:I love the fact that you used the tentacle from Maniac Mansion to fit your artwork ! Great (art-)work !!
Dirk said:Thank you for sharing your awesome demo! I've just finished it and want to share some points and thoughts:
Things I liked
- Font: Stylish and cool
- Statues: Capture the style of ancient statues really well!
- Crouching: Awesome that you can crouch and attack while crouching
- Colours: I really dig your choice of colour palettes! I'm a fan of purple and orange so that's huge plus for me ^^
Bugs I did encounter
- Only those you mentioned in your post
- Well, maybe this: You can skip the end boss by jumping over the enemies and walking to the next room. You could block the right side of the screen until the boss is defeated.
Your demo looks really promising. I'm not sure if there is some code somewhere in the forums that allows you to disable the upper points of the bounding box so that you can actually dodge projectiles. My foggy memory tells me there is, but I can't guarantee it.
red moon said:I played through last night and it was awesome!
I really like the overall vibe to what you have so far. The colors and the music really made it seem thrilling.
I am excited to see what more you do going forward and like the personality of the enemies. That sad fish boss was hard to kill! The Seahorse behind it would sometimes throw 2 fireballs in succession which threw me off when I was trying to jump over them. I did hit the depressed fish many times but was not sure if I could kill him or not.
Really fun so far. You put that together very quickly!
vasge_ said:Dirk said:Thank you for sharing your awesome demo! I've just finished it and want to share some points and thoughts:
Things I liked
- Font: Stylish and cool
- Statues: Capture the style of ancient statues really well!
- Crouching: Awesome that you can crouch and attack while crouching
- Colours: I really dig your choice of colour palettes! I'm a fan of purple and orange so that's huge plus for me ^^
Bugs I did encounter
- Only those you mentioned in your post
- Well, maybe this: You can skip the end boss by jumping over the enemies and walking to the next room. You could block the right side of the screen until the boss is defeated.
Your demo looks really promising. I'm not sure if there is some code somewhere in the forums that allows you to disable the upper points of the bounding box so that you can actually dodge projectiles. My foggy memory tells me there is, but I can't guarantee it.
Thanks, I’m glad you like it! And yes, there are a few threads that talk about the crouch hitbox, and I did find a script by Mugi I that does just that, but I haven’t been able to make it work...
vasge_ said:Melee weapon doesn't follow player while jumping/walking
Dirk said:vasge_ said:Melee weapon doesn't follow player while jumping/walking
This effect reminded me a bit of jorotroid's cool game Witch City. There you can get a boomerang. It would be fun if your character could shoot her claw like a boomerang, maybe as an upgrade later in the game. I don't know if that's something you'd like your character to do as it would change the whole game dynamic.
Dirk said:The only thing... visually I don't really understand the crotch section. Is the statue supposed to be hermaphrodite, because that looks like a penis to me XD
vasge_ said:The idea is that as a Deity, they are supposed to be “perfect”, hence characteristics of both sexes.
Dirk said:Ah, great, so my anatomy knowledge wasn't as rusty as I had thought ^^
vasge_ said:The idea is that as a Deity, they are supposed to be “perfect”, hence characteristics of both sexes.
This reminds me of my written Matura exam in English ("secondary school exit exam or 'maturity diploma' in various countries" -- Wikipedia). I wrote a text about teachers in the future. Technology was so advanced, that teachers would constantly be changing their colour of skin and their sexes so they wouldn't be biased. With constantly I mean every second. Also their skin colour would change in patches so a quarter of a teacher's face would be white, another one Asian, another one African and so on.
Thinking of it... a bit like Michael Jackson's music video for "Black Or White", just not uniform.